An interesting study has been published in the The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that examines how we know, or try and guess, what other people are feeling. Generally, if asked that question, you might answer by saying you examined a person’s facial expressions to gauge their mood. Not so in Japan and other [...]
A number of doctors have lodged objections against the Beacon Medical Group’s planning application for a co-located hospital at Beaumont. Consultant neurosurgeon, Mr Chris Pidgeon, objected to certain aspects of the planning application and he told Dublin City Council by letter: “I have no objection in principle to the co-located hospital, it is the specific [...]
Eminent psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare was remembered by his former colleagues recently when Dr Maeve Daly, Consultant at St Edmunsbury Hospital, Lucan, presented David Dalton, CEO of Plan Ireland, with a donation on behalf of hospital staff in memory of the popular psychiatrist. Dr Clare, who died last September, was consultant psychiatrist at St. Edmunsbury’s [...]
The introduction of an acute medical admissions unit (AMAU) at St James’s Hospital has resulted in a massive decrease in mortality over a five-year period – but it has also been revealed that patients admitted out-of-hours are more likely to die. A study, to be published in this month’s QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, [...]
Only about 10 per cent of cardiac arrest victims are being treated in time, a cardiologist at the Mater Hospital has told Irish Medical Times. Dr Joe Galvin said the Irish public would be surprised to know how poor ambulance response times are for cardiac arrest. He called on the HSE to create a cardiac [...]
Fantasy writer and creator of the very strange ‘Discworld’ series Terry Pratchett, who was diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s Disease (called posterior cortical atrophy) in December, has announced he is donating $1 million for research into the condition. “I intend to scream and harangue while there is time,” Mr Pratchett told delegates at [...]
The recently introduced smoking ban in Minnesota does not apply to performers in theatrical productions. This loophole has turned bars into theatres and drinkers into actors (as if that weren’t already the case), according to the BBC. Now some bars print bills listing the “cast” of bartenders, and ashtrays become “props”. Drinkers don costumes and [...]
Irish surgeon and plastic surgery maestro Mr Peter Butler, famous for spending fifteen years determinedly working towards performing the world’s first full face transplant, has found time to help develop a “miracle” healing gel for plastic surgery scars. Called “Heal“, the gel is being heralded as a new breakthrough in minimising surgical scars and reducing [...]
Prof. Tom Keane’s plan for cancer services will dramatically reduce the waiting time for a colonoscopy, according to the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. During a debate in Leaders Questions, Fine Gael leader Deputy Enda Kenny asked the Taoiseach what is being done to reduce the 18-month waiting list for colonoscopies in some parts of the country. [...]
Labour spokesperson on health, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, asked the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, what is being done about the problems that the HSE identified in two reports published into breast cancer services at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise. “Has the Minister undertaken any investigation of how management is operating in the HSE? Why [...]
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